Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus

by Max Weber

A glance at the occupational statistics for any country in which several religions coexist is revealing.

2001

by Arthur C. Clarke

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Works (Awakening / Beyond the Bayou / Desiree's Baby / Kiss ...

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

"TOM!"

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a "new fellow," not wearing the school uniform, and a school ...

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...

Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

Biology

by Cecie Starr, Christine Evers

Titus Andronicus

by William Shakespeare

IN the Induction to Bartholomew Fair (1614), where Ben Johnson is making fun of the popular taste of his day, one of the...

The ARRL handbook for the radio amateur

by American Radio Relay League (ARRL)

The Gilded Age

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

June 18-. Squire Hawkins sat upon the pyramid of large blocks, called the "stile," in front of his house, contemplating ...

Eugénie Grandet

by Honoré de Balzac

IN certain provincial towns there are houses whose appearance arouses a melancholy as great as that of the gloomiest clo...

The Night Manager

by John le Carré

ON A SNOW-SWEPT January evening of 1991, Jonathan Pine, the English night manager of the Hotel Meister Palace in Zurich,...

Sunshine Reception Stories Set B: Helping Dad: Guided Readin...

The Mediterranean Caper

by Clive Cussler

Major Dirk Pitt adjusted the headset on his thick black hair and slowly turned the channel crank on the radio, trying to...

I Ching

by Richard Wilhelm, Cary F. Baynes

The first hexagram is made up of six unbroken lines.

Apologia pro vita sua

by John Henry Newman

IT may easily be conceived how great a trial it is to me to write the following history of myself; but I must not shrink...

Camino de perfección [por] Santa Teresa de Jesús

by Teresa of Avila, E. Allison Peers

Of the reason which moved me to found this convent in such strict observance.